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04-02-2026, 10:34 AM
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Overlord
 Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
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Artemis II has flown away from Earth
American manned spacecraft Artemis II, carrying 4 astronauts inside, has been launched from Earth. After leaving Earth orbit, it will round the Moon before returning.
Artemis II will not land on the Moon, but upcoming projects will. The next ambition will be bases on the Moon, and missions to Mars. Spaceflight has become much cheaper in recent years, allowing more private initiatives. |
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04-03-2026, 12:28 AM
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Mad Scientist
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: Southern Europe
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Bases on the Moon? Maybe 15 years from now. A man on Mars? Maybe 25. We went to the Moon sixty years ago and doing it again is still called "a mission".
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04-03-2026, 08:01 AM
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Foot Soldier
Join Date: Apr 2022
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Prayers to the astronauts onboard, as well as to their families, for their safe return. You'll never catch me going into space. The thought just terrifies me too much. Maybe it's having been alive during the space shuttle Challenger explosion. I don't know. Heck. I even have a little bit of fears to take a routine airplane flight.
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04-03-2026, 01:02 PM
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Team Blue Boy
Join Date: Jun 2014
Location: U.S., East Coast
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I wouldn't do it, but I kinda envy them. With all that's going on right now, getting to leave the entire planet for a spin around the moon sounds like a decent short vacation.
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04-07-2026, 01:55 PM
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Overlord
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sweden
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They're rounding the Moon now
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04-07-2026, 02:21 PM
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Weed Whacker
Join Date: Apr 2007
Location: Auburn, WA
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The coming back home/re-entry part has got to be the most harrowing aspect of it all.
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04-07-2026, 02:32 PM
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Foot Elite
Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: London, England
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The furthest anyone has ever been from Trump
 It’s extremely cool we’ve gone back this far, and hopefully land there again. I did facepalm to one comment from someone completely not getting it, asking how they were able to see the backside of the moon lit up 
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04-16-2026, 07:52 AM
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Overlord
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Location: Sweden
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They're back on Earth
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04-16-2026, 08:18 AM
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Overlord
Join Date: Feb 2004
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What are the odds that any astronauts have ever mooned the Moon?
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04-16-2026, 11:47 AM
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Detoxed Member
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